Can routine stool tests detect colon cancer?

Stool routine tests include several items, and the clinical significance of various results varies. Normal stool color: yellow-brown for adults, yellow or golden for infants. Tarry color is seen in upper gastrointestinal bleeding, etc. Can routine stool tests detect colon cancer? Please see the following analysis:

Red is seen in dysentery, colon cancer, hemorrhoidal bleeding, etc. Clay color is seen in obstructive jaundice caused by various reasons, etc. Green is seen in infant indigestion, etc. Yellow-green is seen in pseudomembranous enterocolitis, etc.

Normal stool shape: formed soft stool.

Clinical significance: Porridge-like or watery stools are seen in acute gastroenteritis, food poisoning, pseudomembranous enterocolitis, etc. Mucous or purulent stools are seen in dysentery, ulcerative colitis, colitis, enteritis, colon cancer, rectal cancer, etc. Curd-like stools are seen in infants with indigestion of breast milk, etc. Thin strip-like stools are seen in rectal stenosis caused by colon cancer, etc. Rice-like stools are seen in cholera, paracholera, etc.

Normal reference value of stool cells: red blood cells. White blood cells: the appearance and increase of red blood cells are seen in dysentery, enteritis, colon cancer, hemorrhoidal bleeding, etc. White blood cell increase is seen in enteritis and bacterial dysentery.

Normal reference value for fecal occult blood: negative.

Clinical significance: Positive, seen in gastrointestinal bleeding caused by gastrointestinal malignancies, typhoid fever, ulcer disease, liver cirrhosis, etc.

Normal reference value of stercobilin: negative. Positive, seen in hemolytic jaundice and hepatic jaundice, etc.

Normal reference value of fecal bilirubin: negative.

Clinical significance: Positive, seen in hemolytic jaundice, obstructive jaundice, etc.

Normal reference value of fecal bacterial culture plus drug sensitivity: negative, no pathogenic bacteria.

Clinical significance: Positive, seen in bacterial dysentery, typhoid fever, intestinal tuberculosis, acute and chronic enteritis, etc. At the same time, effective antibiotics can be selected according to drug sensitivity.